Car-door structure.



B. D. JONES.

GAR DOOR STRUCTURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.3',1911.

1,036,63&, Patented Aug. 27. 1912.

n STATES BELDEN D. JONES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JONES CAR DOOR COMPANY,

' OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed Marcus, 1911.

Patented Aug. 27, 1912'. Serial No. 612,040.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it,'known that I, BELDEN D. JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Door Structures, of which the followingis a specification. 1 This invention relates to improvements in car door structures and refers more particularly to that type of car doors used on railway freight cars.

Among the salient objects of the invention are to provide a construction whiclrc'an be readily opened and closed without binding and which effectively forms a close weather-proof fit with the car body so as to prevent any moisture or water from entering the car andwhich avoids any unprotected joints between the car door opening and car door; to provide in a construc tion of the above character improved means for securing a weather-tight joint at the ends of the door when the latter is in closed position; to provide a construction which is simple and economical in manufacture and is nevertheless reliable in operation; and in general to provide an improved construction of the character referred to.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings the figure is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view of a car door equipped with my invention.

In devices of this general character difficulty has heretofore been experienced in obtaining a weatherproof door structure which at the same time can be readily opened and closed. Numerous devices have been patented aiming at the above objects but all of them have been more or less failures either because they were not in fact Weather-proof fits after thedoor had been subjected for some time to weather conditions in actual practice, or because they were so complicated or impracticable that they would not open and close readily after the door had been in use for any appreciable length of time. The present invention while more or less simple in its details of construction has nevertheless obtained the aforementioned objects in actual practice.

Referring to the drawings- -10 designates as a whole a freight car provided with a plate 33 extends from the lower edge of sliding door 11, mounted to slide across the car door opening. The side edges of the door are provided with angle irons 12 and 13 respectively, which extend throughout the height of the door. Then the door is closed it'abuts against the door stop 22, at one end, in the usual manner. As I have heretofore stat-ed vdifliculty has been experienced in preventing moisture or rain from leaking or seeping by the vertical edges of the door into the car body. To this end one door post 23 is provided with a verti cally extending rabbet or channel 24 50 formed that its outer side 25 is in alinement with the angle plate 12. As shown in the drawing the sides of the channel are practically formed by'a door stop 22 and a portion of the door post 23 which projects beyond the plane of the car body. The arrangement is such as to prevent any inoisture from leaking or seeping by the door post'into the car body. The other door post is so arranged that the rear end of the door, when the latter is in closed position, extends slightly beyond the projecting end 27 of the door post 26, forming in effect a vertical channel 28. Within this channel 28 is secured a vertically extending weather guard 29 which is secured by screws 30 to the post 26. v In order that this guard may be more fixedly held in position itis secured to the .post before the sheathing 31 is applied to the car body. The outer end of thiswcather guard 29 terminates in a hook-shaped extension 32 which abuts against the overlapping flange 13 of the angle iron 13 when the door is in closed position. In order to more effectively prevent lateral displacement of the door when it is in closed position, I provide the same with an edge plate having at its inner end anin-turned lip 34:, which over-laps the flange l3 and. the channeled extension 32. This edge the door upwardly a short distance.

' From the foregoing it will be seen that I effectually prevent any water or moisture from leaking into the car body when the door is in closed position. \Vhatwater gets by the angle plate 12 will pass into the channel 24, while any water which attempts to enter the car at the other end of the door will be caught in the channel 28.

The object andoperation of the various parts heretofore described is apparent and needs no further deseriptioii. lhe invention, ho'wever, -is- -not limited to the details of construction shown except as? ,set' forth inga car door opening,

.. to. slide across said opening,"a door-postat ;either end of'said opening, .one end thereof, the post adjacent said stop inthe appended elaims.

:1 claim as-my invention: 1

11, The combination with a-ear body have ing; a 7 car dooropening, j of 1 to slide across said openmg,'a' door post at .eitherend of said. opening, a door stop, at

. is in closed position,

2.0 door when amlatter is in oneflend thereof, thepost adja cent said stop projeeting beyond ithe plane of the car side and fhiiniing witli' the adjaeent edge of the stop avertically extending "channel of sub-' stantial' depth; in eross sectionythe outer side ot 's'aid channel formed bythe face of the stop, substantially flush with the a'djaoentedge of the door, when the latter "vertical edge of the closed position, will pass into the ehanneland down through water leaking. past the a door mounted' whereby moisture or the open end of the latter instead of enter ing the v2. The combination with a car'body ihav- I p of a door mounted a door stop at being rabbetedto form a vertically extending channel of substantial depth in cross section,

the outer. side of said (ih'annel beingsubstantially flush with the adjacent edge. of

thestop when the latter is in closed position,

whereby Water or moistureleakingpast the yertioal edge of the door, when the latter is in closed position, wi-

nel and down through the open end-of the latter instead of entering thecar.

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